Wild Sounds of Wales – Life in the Trees

An innovative orchestral work and immersive Virtual Reality experience that transports you to the ancient woodlands of Dinefwr, blending music, nature, and technology to inspire hope.

Friday, 8th August 2025 | Tŷ Pawb, Market Street, Wrexham

11am-1pm & 2pm-4pm | FREE ENTRY

Life in the Trees is an immersive 8-minute journey through the oak canopy of Dinefwr Park, where music and birdsong intertwine. With a score performed by the WNO Orchestra and sound recorded entirely on location, the VR experience surrounds the viewer with sound and image. This living portrait captures nature’s resilience and beauty in the face of climate anxiety.

The Experience

Conceived as a way to reconnect people with nature, Life in the Trees is an innovative orchestral work and fully immersive VR experience directed by Jacinth Latta. Composed by Owain Llwyd and performed by the WNO Orchestra, the project transforms field recordings by Axel Drioli from Dinefwr National Nature Reserve into music. Audio analyses of native wildlife are woven into the score, allowing birdsong to merge with orchestral textures, while the very shape of the land forms the work’s harmonic DNA.

It is a testament to the living, breathing music of the Welsh landscape, with stunning visuals captured in VR by Domonic White.

One oak. A thousand lives.

In this VR short, we witness the quiet drama of an ancient tree’s life from thriving canopy to fertile decay. Through seasonal shifts and sonic textures, the tree becomes a symbol of resilience. Its fall is not an end, but a beginning as deadwood provides vital nutrients for beetles, fungi and the growth of new shoots. What seems like loss becomes renewal.

This is a story of the cycle of life, how nature transforms what’s fallen into the foundations for future generations.